THE HORRIFYING TRUE STORY OF THE SOAP LADY OF LAKE CRESCENT: 9 Real Tales of Terror! #WeirdDarkness

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, Supernatural, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Her body was found floating in Lake Crescent, perfectly preserved in this creepy, soap-like state. The murder of Hallie Latham is a murder mystery that's as strange as it is chilling.
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IN THIS EPISODE: He and his lover took all their possessions and 12,000 doses of LSD to go live in the Satanist sex castle of Corpsewood Manor. Then their story ended with a bloodbath. (The Corpsewood Manor Murders) *** 6-year-old Sheila Fox’s disappearance is strange in that there is more than one account of her abduction – contradictory accounts. So what happened to her on that August day in 1944? (Girl In The Green Mac) *** A skeptic of the paranormal housesits for friends in their haunted house. This should get interesting. (The Skeptic And The Playful Ghost) *** We’ve all heard of werewolves, and in recent episodes we’ve touched on other creatures of a similar nature such as were-dogs, were-hyenas, and the like. There are were-tigers, and were-… well, you get the idea. But here’s one I’ll be you never heard of. A were-tree. (When Creatures Change Form) *** According to one of our Weirdo family members, it’s possible to live in a haunted house without ever seeing any sign of the paranormal – until you decide to begin remodeling. (It Began In The Conservatory) *** How do you run from something that is faster than any human being alive, and is invisible? (Hiker Confronts Invisible Bipedal Entity) *** Have you ever woken up and don’t remember even walking into your bedroom to go to bed the night before? For one person, that was just the beginning of the outlandish things to follow. (I Don’t Think I Was Dreaming) *** On June 16, 1936, Hallie Latham, a waitress living in Port Angeles, Washington, married her third husband, a beer truck driver and well-known ladies’ man named Monty Illingworth. She had no idea on what was undoubtedly a happy day that she had just made the worst mistake of her life – or that she was soon to become a legend in death. (The Lady of the Lake) *** Japan has rightly earned itself a reputation as a wellspring of the weird, of that there can be no doubt. Of special interest here is all of the strange creatures and entities said to inhabit this land, ranging from mysterious monsters, to phantoms, to everything in between. (Phantoms and Monsters of Japan)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Disclaimer and Cold Open
00:01:13.389 = Show Intro
00:04:50.772 = The Lady of the Lake
00:11:27.736 = It Began In The Conservatory
00:16:20.636 = Invisible Entity
00:20:26.617 = Changing Creatures
00:29:51.042 = Girl In The Green Mac
00:35:09.086 = I Don’t Think I Was Dreaming
00:40:31.370 = The Skeptic And The Playful Ghost
00:43:46.661 = Corpsewood Manor
00:52:54.416 = Phantoms and Monsters of Japan
01:35:48.152 = Show Outro
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“The Lady of the Lake” by Troy Taylor: http://bit.ly/2OsU4QL
“Girl In The Green Mac” by Elisabeth Tilstra: http://bit.ly/2shjCaC
“When Creatures Change Form” by Nick Redfern: http://bit.ly/35HjZts
“It Began In The Conservatory” by ‘Jackson’ submitted at WeirdDarkness.com
“The Skeptic And The Playful Ghost” by ‘Bee’: http://bit.ly/35IbD4Z
“Hiker Confronts Invisible Bipedal Entity” by ‘Jim’: http://bit.ly/2smsdZH
“The Corpsewood Manor Murders” by Gina Dimuro: http://bit.ly/2QTNSTr
“I Don’t Think I Was Dreaming” by E. Velez, submitted at WeirdDarkness.com
“Phantoms and Monsters of Japan” by Brent Swancer: http://bit.ly/2Or6IiX
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Originally aired: August 01, 2018
SOURCES PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/SoapLady
TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8wjmdm